Saturday, September 1, 2018

Schmidt - West Towns

From the Schmidt Collection, the Chicago and West Towns.

Snow sweepers 5 and 6 at the Harlem barn, 1/2/48
The same two sweepers in April 1948

Sweeper 9 in April 1948

Line car 15 on 1/2/48 at the Harlem barn




Two more views of 15 in April 1948


Cars 161 and 124 at Harlem in April 1948

Car 101 at shelter in Brookfield, 1/2/48

Car 134 passing the Zoo

Car crossing the Salt Creek bridge
Finally, it's a shame this wasn't preserved: 
Direction sign at Brookfield Zoo, Dec. 1947

1 comment:

Josh Sutherland said...

That looks like the Salt Creek bridge. The Des Plaines River bridge I think had no abutments like that. The Des Plaines River is also 2-3X as wide as that in the pic.